Gou became a god or devil after splitting his body

Chapter 155 Preparation before Breakthrough (1/2)

In the afternoon, when Li Yan returned to Su's house, the food had been heated twice.

When Li Yan sat at the dinner table, the second elder of the Su family who came after hearing the news quickly pulled Li Yan to ask about the situation.

Seeing this, the Su family members at other tables couldn't help but put down their chopsticks. They calmed down and looked at Li Yan, waiting for the result.

The result was naturally gratifying. When Su Zhe learned that the [Magma Red Stove] was already on the way to Su's house, he was immediately overjoyed.

As someone who was once addicted to alchemy, a good spiritual furnace is no less tempting to a sword fanatic than a good sword.

When he was happy, he personally poured Li Yan a glass of wine.

Make other people look at each other in shock.

Then, they unconsciously compared Su Zhe with the current Great Elder, and found that Su Zhe was obviously not as serious and steady as the Great Elder.

Not long after Su Zhe and Li Yan ate, the [Magma Red Stove] arrived.

Looking at the [Magma Red Fire Furnace] covered with flame tattoos, Su Zhe's eyes lit up.

Afterwards, he threw a bag of spirit beads to Li Yan, then carried the [Red Magma Stove] and ran to the Su family's alchemy area to make alchemy.

Obviously, the [Red Magma Furnace] has aroused his addiction to alchemy.

After Li Yan got the bag of spirit beads, he did not open it immediately, but put it in his arms, and then continued to eat and drink with the Su family.

Most of these Su family members are from Su Han's lineage.

There were about thirty or forty people, all brothers of Grandpa Su Han and his father, as well as their respective wives and children.

Su Han is the one with the best cultivation talent among them, which makes them all concentrate their resources on Su Han as much as possible.

Because according to the rules of the Su family, when Su Han becomes an innate warrior, he will automatically be promoted to direct lineage.

These people will also follow Su Han and become the new direct lineage of the Su family, and thus begin to enjoy the treatment of direct lineage.

This is why they are willing to save money and food to ensure Su Han's cultivation progress, just so that one person can achieve enlightenment and chickens and dogs ascend to heaven.

This method is conducive to maintaining intra-family competition and family unity, so many families in King Xuanfeng run their families according to this model.

Generally speaking, it is easy to distinguish those who run their families in this way. It depends on whether their direct family members have a character that represents seniority.

For example, several elders of the Su family, Su Xun, Su Zhe and others, are all direct descendants of the Su family, but they all have two-character names without a character representing seniority in the middle.

This shows that this family does not determine the direct and collateral lines of the family based on the distance of blood.

In a family that determines direct and collateral lines based on bloodline distance, even if the collateral line performs well, it must go through a series of assessments before it can be upgraded to a direct line.

Moreover, only this one person can be promoted. His parents and other three generations of close relatives are still collateral.

More importantly, after being promoted to a direct lineage, the original name must also be changed.

If it's a two-character name, that's okay. Just add the character for your seniority in the middle. If it's a three-character name, you have to delete one character.

In this world, unless your last name is a two-letter name, it is difficult for you to have a four-letter name.

While eating and drinking, Li Yan and Su Han, all close relatives within three generations, had a good relationship.

Li Yan was all listening and talking.

Li Yan's quiet listening attitude won unanimous praise from them, and they all praised Su Han for becoming much more mature.

Because Su Han was addicted to cultivation before, he never paid much attention to maintaining the relationship with his relatives. He often couldn't communicate with each other, and Su Han would find excuses to leave.

The reason why Li Yan did not follow Su Han's character design was because he wanted to subtly make everyone accept his changes.

After all, people change, let alone people who have experienced a narrow escape from death.

Although the change is a bit big, it is still very reasonable.

It wasn't until evening that the banquet was finally over.

The leftovers and the like would naturally be picked up by servants. After Li Yan greeted Su Han's parents, he returned to his room.

In the room, a maid has already made fragrant tea and lit bright candles.

Under the light of the candle, Li Yan poured out the spirit beads in the bag.

Li Yan counted fifty beads in total, all of which were less than one inch in diameter and were inferior spiritual beads.

However, quantity more than makes up for the lack of quality.

This is the first time that Li Yan has so many spirit beads.

It had been several days since he arrived in Xuanfeng King City, and Li Yan had also made a trip to Su Mansion.

He discovered that here, innate-level resources cannot be bought with ordinary silver and gold, and can only be traded with spiritual beads.

After walking around the Xiantian Market, Li Yan realized one thing: he was poor again.

From then on, he rarely left the Su Mansion.

This time he obtained 50 inferior spirit beads at once. After thinking about it, Li Yan kept them instead of consuming them in a hurry.

"We will wait until we are promoted to Xiantian."

Then, he walked into the study room and read through the books containing alchemy experiences found in the outer building of the Su family library.

As an alchemy family, the Su family has the most numerous books like this.

Each generation of alchemists of the Su family will record their alchemy experiences without reservation, put them in the Su family library, and pass them on to future generations.

Of course, the innate level of alchemy experience is placed in the inner building, while the outer building only has the acquired level of alchemy experience.

Even so, it was enough for Li Yan.

His alchemy skills have reached a bottleneck. If he can fully absorb this massive amount of experience, it will be enough for Li Yan's alchemy skills to break through.

Time flies, and in a blink of an eye, more than a month has passed.

The breath of spring has faded, and the scorching sun of early summer is beginning to leap, ready to scorch the earth.

The battle between Da Zhou and Da Yue also became more and more anxious.

As the fighting between the two sides continues to escalate, the imperial court has begun to recruit officers from the major families and forces in Xuanfeng King City.

At the same time, they are recruiting soldiers from other roads simultaneously.

For more than a month, rows of young and middle-aged people, escorted by soldiers from various roads, set out from their own road, carrying dry food, and gathered towards Xuanfeng Road.

These young adults are drawn from families that cannot afford to pay taxes.

Whenever the imperial court recruits soldiers from each Tao to go into battle to kill the enemy, the Tao masters of each Tao will issue Tao master orders to their own Tao domain.

The contents of the Taoist Orders are similar, they all levy war taxes.

It's not that the Taoist masters want to take advantage of this moment to plunder a wave of wealth.

The Taoist masters did not look down upon the gold and silver collected. Their main purpose was to fulfill the orders issued by the imperial court and fill up the recruitment quota required by the imperial court as soon as possible.

Being a soldier is a hard job. Not only is the mortality rate low, but the return rate is even lower.

This is not the same ancient time as Blue Star, where a small soldier can have a one in ten thousand chance of becoming a leading general.

In this world, martial arts is king, and if you have never even embarked on the path of cultivation, unless you have incredible luck or cheating, it will be difficult for you to even get the position of captain.

Many soldiers who are lucky enough to survive will gradually die within three or two years after returning to their hometowns after retirement.

Because they consumed too much vitality on the battlefield.

Once the soldiers enter the Da Zhou military camp, they will be required to practice the exercises specially made by the Da Zhou army. This kind of exercises can be practiced very quickly, but at the cost of depleting a person's original vitality and overdrawing their potential.

Therefore, very few civilian warriors with excellent talents successfully cultivated innate skills in the army, but eventually died before the age of fifty. This was because too much vitality was consumed in the early stage, and no matter how much they replenished it in the later stage, it would not help. .

All these things, when spread to the ears of the people, are enough to make them avoid being a soldier like a snake or a scorpion.

So how do you get people to volunteer as soldiers?

What the Taoist masters do is very simple, which is to increase the war tax mentioned above.

If you can't pay taxes, then unfortunately, your house will be ransacked, or a young man from your family will serve as a soldier.

As long as someone in your family serves as a soldier, you will naturally not have to pay the war tax.

Of course, the dry food on the road is also produced by them.

According to them, I can't exempt you from taxes and have to bear your food and drink along the way. This doesn't make sense.

But sometimes, the court wants a lot of young and middle-aged people. After all the war taxes have been collected, what should I do if there are still not enough places?

Are young adults selected from major families?

Of course not. At this time, Taoist mansions in various places need to temporarily patch it.

‘There is less tax revenue for the war ahead. The imperial court is in urgent need of more war taxes on the front line. ’

In this way, another wave of war taxes can be collected logically until the last recruitment quota is completed.

In this process, the lord of the county town, the lord of the county town, and the prince of the state capital can all receive a large amount of war tax, and the Taoist master can also complete the tasks assigned by the court.

It's a win-win situation.

As for the people, let them suffer a little longer for the sake of the great Zhou Kingdom.

Therefore, any family with a little money will not let their children go to war even if they sell iron.

Those without money can only accept their fate.

Different from recruiting soldiers from the common people, the Great Zhou court recruited officers from the families and forces in Xuanfeng City.

Soldiers are cannon fodder, and officers can get military honors.

Military merit can be exchanged for various treasures in the army, and there are even innate martial arts, innate martial arts, and even Ningsha realm skills and Ningsha spells.

Therefore, it is different from ordinary people who are forcibly forced to join the army.

Most of these children of families who started out as military officers, disciples of sects, and backbones of forces joined the army on their own initiative.

Every time there is a war between the two countries, there will be a group of people like this who, under the pressure of the cruel battlefield, will break through to the innate realm.

Attracted by so many successful cases, some casualties will be automatically ignored by them.

Therefore, when the imperial court solicited officer quotas from various major families, sects, sects and other forces in Xuanfeng King City.

These forces are vying for the few spots.

The Su family also participated and won a captain and a quota for one hundred households.

The army of the Zhou Dynasty was organized based on soldiers, with five men in a corps, and one of the five was elected as the corps leader.

The corps commander is not included in the officer establishment. This rank was introduced because of the convenience of management.

The candidates for the captain are all selected by the captain from his own team, so it is easy but difficult to get the captain. The key lies in how to please your captain.

Therefore, the people who serve as corps commanders are civilians who join the army.

Above the corps commander is the captain. The captain is in charge of two corps, that is, ten people.

The captain is the lowest and most basic member of the military establishment of the Great Zhou Dynasty.

Even the lowest level officers are out of reach of the soldiers.

Above the captains, there are hundreds of households. Under the hundred households there are ten captains, who are in charge of one hundred and ten people.

After the Hundred Households, there are the Thousand Households. The Thousand Households have ten Hundred Households under their command, managing 1,110 people.

The larger one is the Ten Thousand Households. The Ten Thousand Households have ten Thousand Households under their command, managing 11,110 people.

Five Ten Thousand Households form a legion, and the leader of the legion is the general.

The name of the legion is the name of the general.

For example, before the Great Zhou Dynasty was established, the general who led the Red Blood Army was called the Red Blood General.

Above the legion, there is also a group army, which is often composed of three to five legions, and only appears when a large-scale battle occurs.

And the leader of such a group army is the top level of the Great Zhou military officer system, the Marshal.

However, the position of the general may still be inherited by an outsider, and the position of the Marshal can only be a member of the Ji family since the establishment of the Great Zhou Dynasty.

After getting two places, the Su family also asked Li Yan if he needed it, but was rejected by Li Yan.

Because he has begun to prepare for a breakthrough to the innate, at this time, all clones must reduce the intensity of their activities.

Linjiang City, where Li Yan's body is located.

When the blood and qi in the body have finished tempering the last of the five internal organs.

A feeling of perfection was transmitted from Li Yan's body to Li Yan's soul.

At this moment, Li Yan's already huge soul has grown again, and his mental strength has increased a lot.

At this moment, Li Yan's cultivation has reached the peak of the Yunzang realm, which is also the peak of the acquired realm.

Next, he will prepare to break through the Xiantian realm.

"I have to go out."

Li Yan moved his hands and feet and looked into the distance.

From the breakthrough insights of the innate warriors of the Su family, Li Yan has gained a lot of valuable experience.

One of them is that when breaking through the innate, it is best to break through in a safe place with abundant spiritual energy.

Li Yan did not think about the place with abundant spiritual energy. After all, if there is such a place, it has been occupied by others.

However, Li Yan is not short of abundant spiritual energy.

At this time, there is already one-tenth of spiritual energy in his Dantian, occupying the Dantian.

Li Yan felt the spiritual energy, which was much purer than that of the inferior spiritual bead.

It was obviously purified by the clone and then received by Li Yan.

Although the quantity does not seem to be much, its purity is enough for Li Yan to condense a lot of five elements true qi.

The first strand of five elements true qi, or the five elements true qi rune imprint, needs special attention.

Because this is the foundation of all subsequent five elements true qi, and it is also the processing plant of all five elements true qi.

Compared with the true qi rune imprint of a single attribute, the complexity of the five elements true qi rune imprint is much greater.

Li Yan has made plans to fail dozens of times.

This is also a very time-consuming step for those who practice [Five Elements Five Directions Reincarnation Gong] before breaking through the innate.

As for a safe place, Li Yan does not think that Linjiang City is safe.

When breaking through the innate, there will be fluctuations in spiritual energy, because you have to absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth and transform it into true qi.

For some keen innate masters, this is like a beacon in the dark night.

So, Li Yan planned to find a remote place outside the city to make a breakthrough.

He did it right away. After leaving a clone at home, Li Yan made up his original body and left Linjiang City.

No one would pay attention to an ordinary, low-key person like Li Yan.

It took a day for Li Yan to come to an outer peak of the Shiwan Mountains.

It took another day to find a cave. There was a different world inside the cave, which was a large karst cave.

After dealing with some large creatures inside and dispersing most of the poisonous insects, snakes and ants, Li Yan released another clone next to him.

If there is an accident, it can block the gun at a critical moment.

It took another half a day to call back the scattered souls.

In Guiyuan Sect, Li Yan's clone closed his eyes to make alchemy on the grounds that he had some insights in alchemy.

In Jinfu, Li Yan's clone left Jinfu and Linjiang City on the grounds of sightseeing, found a cave in the mountains and hid.

In Linshan City, Li Yan's clone was still lying dead in a rented house.

In Shiwan Mountain, Li Yan's clone was still lying dead in the belly of the super-eyed snake.

In Linjiang City, Li Yan's clone said hello to Xiao Zhao and went into seclusion.

In Nanshan City, Li Yan's clone was lying dead in a remote house.

In Xuanfeng King City, Su Mansion, Li Yan's clone began to retreat under the pretext of enlightenment from cultivation.

When the clones outside only left a little soul and the rest of the souls were all concentrated on Li Yan's original body, Li Yan felt an unprecedented strong feeling.

After adapting for a while, Li Yan began to break through the Xiantian realm.